Hit the trail with six complete "Lives of the cowboys" sketches, plus four cowboy songs, all recorded from live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion from 1997-2005.

Overview: Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features...

Evelyn, a Sanctified Brethern woman and a devoted mother, dies on a Saturday morning with a final wish that her ashes be scattered over Lake Wobegon from a pontoon boat. After her death, her family finds out that she has been in love with Raoul, a Las Vegas man who showed her the joys of life.

Dissatisfied by her life, Puff the cat leaves home and becomes rich and famous, but eventually returns having found out it is better to be who you are.

John Tollefson, the son of Byron and Mary of Lake Wobegon, leaves Minnesota for upstate New York, to manage a public radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents. Free from the Dark Lutherans of his hometown, he makes a pleasant bachelor life for himself in New York. He buys a new house and paints it a deep gold. He has a bright idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh produce. He falls in love with...

Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.